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How much is the Canadian Dollar to Dirham in the United Arab Emirates? Can someone please let me know. Thank-You. Jk31213 00:01, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
where can i look for info on lawyer and how much u make and how many years it takes to become a lawyer
See Legal education. In the U.S. you need an undergraduate degree (B.S., or B.A.) and a good score on the LSAT ( Law School Admission Test. Then you apply to law schools. If your spelling and grammar improve enough, you get admitted to law school and study hard for 3 years, with lots of classes using the Socratic method. You learn about Contracts, torts, civil and criminal and constitutional law, tax law, legal writing, and many other interesting courses. You may take a job with a law firm as an intern after your second year and get paid to do little legal tasks. In your senior year, you do lots of interviews with law firms. If you get a job, and that is difficult because there are more law graduates than there are good jobs, then you go to work in the area which interests you: business law, patent law, tax law, criminal law, bankruptcy, etc. You are expected to work all the time and have very high billable hours, in a several-year effort to become a partner. If you don't make partner, you might be kept as a hired hand "associate" or you might be asked to leave. If you become a partner, then you may get "points" which are a portion of the money made by the associates. You might go into politics or become a judge. A "rainmaker" is someone like a former Senator or Governor, who brings in high paying clients rather than doing lots of work. They make very big bucks. Sometimes lawyers over age 70 are forced to retire and become "of counsel." The pay can be very high - hundreds of thousands of dollars for senior partners in big firms- or comfortable- $50,000 to $100,000, for prosecutors, lawyers in small firms or private practice or associates. Edison 05:19, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Just wondering if someone might please be able to help me decipher a legal abbreviation. I can't seem to find it anywhere. I'm reading ancient English cases, and the judges' titles are not annotated "LJ" "J" or "P" like im used to. I've found Martin, B ; Channel, B and Bramwell, B. I think the "B" stands for Baron - but I was hoping somebody could perhaps clarify this? Maybe this could be added to the common meanings of "B" page. Thanks kindly, Suzanne
Why, dear god, why!? 71.107.40.149 01:32, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Per [1] it arose in the USA in the 19th century, and is regarded as uneducated lower class speech. Few other words have such a sound pattern in their conjugation as "I sneak in," "I snuck in yesterday," "I have snuck in many times." Standard English is "I sneak in," "I sneaked in yesterday," "I have sneaked in many times before." Edison 05:30, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Where are the Shi'a sect, Zaidi, found?
Does anyone ever sing this as a round with 8 parts?-- Filll 05:17, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
aabbccdd aabbccdd aabbccdd aabbccdd aabbccdd aabbccdd aabbccdd aabbccdd
Where in a legal document would a lawyer record the date of an auction? P e rfectStorm (Hello! Hallo! Bonjour! Holla!) 09:21, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Some shoes have a greater propensity towards shinyness than others. What kind of shoe materials produce the maximum shine? Is a shinier shoe something employers look for? -- Username132 ( talk) 13:32, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
In many wars in mankind's history, religion was used or abused to justify its cause. Even though most followers of, say, the Christian religion and Islam emphasize the imperative of peace in their faith, one cannot deny that appealing to the religious feelings of the masses have helped many leaders convince people to go for war. What I mean is that one may doubt that e.g. the organizers of the crusades really believed that freeing Jerusalem is their God's wish but the majority of soldiers participating in the crusades certainly did. Now, Buddhists like to praise the fact that the Buddha's teaching on peace is so clear that it is much harder to manipulate Buddhists's religious feelings into supporting a war, and in fact, it is often claimed, that no major war has ever been justified as being necessary to fulfil commands of the Buddhist faith. Is my inclination to believe this due to the fact that there is truth to it or just due to my European lack of knowledge about Asian history? Simon A. 14:50, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
165.146.65.79 14:51, 18 October 2006 (UTC)charlotte what is some intresting early history of the zulu kingdom
See Shaka#Shaka's social and military revolution -- Jcw69 15:04, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
When I was a child (60yrs ago), my English grandfather (born in 1878) used to sing a little ballad about 3 black crows and a dead horse. It went something like :
There were 3 crows upon a tree, They were as black as crows can be,
( something, something )
Said one crow unto his mate, It's been ( ??? ) since I have ate.
( something, something )
I know a horse that has been slain, He lies there still on yonder plain.
( something, something )
We'll perch ourselves on his jawbone and pick his eyes out one by one.
Can ANYONE identify a tome where a printed version of this song can be found?
There were three ravens, sat on a tree They were as black as they might be The one of them said to his mate "Where shall we our breakfast take?" "Down in yonder green field There lies a knight under his shield. His hounds, they lie at his feet So well they can their master keep. His hawks, they fly so eagerly There's no fowl dare him come nie. Down there comes a fallow doe As great with yound as she might go. She lifts up his bloody head And kissed his wounds that were so red She got him up upon her back And carried him to earthen lake. She buried him before the prime She was dead herself ere even-song time. God send every gentleman Such hawks, such hounds and such a Le-man (transcript ends)
Three black crows sat on a tree Ca beelya geelya gaw ye And they were black as crows could be Ca beelya geelya gaw ye One black crow says unto his mate What shall we do for something to eat? An old red horse in yonder lane Who very lately has been slain We'll pick his eyes out one by one And pick the meat from off his bones
Bogdangiusca who is an admin wrote that Borat was not filmed in Kazhakstan but rather Romania. Just from having seen the previews, I had a strong feeling it was filmed in Romania, especially because he drives a Dacia. Anyway it just looked like Romania. I was wondering where in Romania it was filmed? Bucuresti? Brasov? Somewhere else?
Having spent 2 years in Bistrita and Baicoi, and having been an American actor in a (small, cut) role, I was curious. Do you know where in Romania it was filmed?
Tony
I want data regarding how many people are entrepreneurs and how many are non-entrepreneurs/workers in percentage (or per 1000 people or per 10 people) for a few countries. And I would like to know especially for USA and Brazil. I think many tables might be there deep under Internet but I am not able to find them by googling through yahoo search.
Please throw me a few good links if possible. Incase you would tell me the numbers for a few countries, thats also fine.
Thanks
Hey everybody, my knowledge of the Holocaust is OK, but there are still a few of its concepts that I don't understand, so I thought I thought I'd annoy you with my questions
1) Why didn't the average guy in the street speak out against the Nazi regime, surely the majority of people would have thought that the persecution had to stop and would have spoken out against it?
2) Why was Hitler so prejudiced against anybody who didn't conform to aryan standards? Surely if he wanted to purge the world of all non-aryans he would have ended up in a concentration camp himself?
3) Why did the SS carry out the murders? Why were they also so willing to torture victims? Surely some of the moral fibers would have told them that they shouldn't be doing what they were doing? Because, I mean if enough of them said, excuse my language, "up yours Hitler, we're not killing the Jews" who would have challenged them? Nobody, so I was wondering did they get a kick out of torturing people or something?
4) Lastly, is the question that confuses me the most; Fair enough, the Nazi regime sought to murder people who did not conform to their standards. So, rather than torture prisoners for years, why not just immediately gas them. Did they dehumanize their victims or something so that they would embrace their deaths when they were killed and they would therefore be easier to force into the gas chambers? I apologise that this is such a loaded question. Ahadland 18:00, 18 October 2006 (UTC) 18:00, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
If you study genocide, you will likely come to some disturbing conclusions:
StuRat 19:35, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
it is often said that the weimar republic experienced a golden age, how was this the case?
I'm writing an essay on hazard management strategies. What recent hazard (ie. hurricane katrina? ) would be a good example to argue for or against that 'management should focus on reducing the effects rather than managing the causes'?
Basically most hazards will show that there is little you can do to manage the causes (ie. seeding hurricanes does little) but wondering if there any other examples that illustrate this point or argue against it.
Disasters that can't be completely avoided:
Disasters that can sometimes be completely avoided (although the price may be too high, in many cases):
StuRat 21:23, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
The academic year has started again, so less evilbu on the reference desk, but still some:).
Seriously : I had a question about a certain Jewish ritual. (Questions about Jews in particular seem to be quite popular right now?) I saw it very briefly on television. It involved a group of Jewish (young) men (like between 20 and 30 years old). I wouldn't exactly call it a dance, but it wasn't static either. It's possible one of the men plays a different role, as if he is the central character (maybe this person is celebrated) and the others move around him.
Or maybe this was just a group of Jewish men having fun not doing anything specifically Jewish. But I'd doubt that.
Please don't think I'm trying to take a cheap shot at Jewish ways, it's really not the point of my question, I've just been wondering about this for quite some time.
Thank you very much, Evilbu 23:28, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello all!
According to UC Berkeley's website, they have specific plans for the implementation of Affirmative Action. To my knowledge, AA was banned from use in hiring and admissions in the UC system in the mid-90s, and Prop. 209 baned it statewide in 1996. So my question is: Is UCB using "affirmative action" to mean the active search for/recrutment of minorities, or did they find some loophole in 209, OR has 209 been overturned/altered but affirmative action remains unpopular? I am utterly confused. (This is the link that started the confusion: [3])
Thanks in advance! ~ Russia Moore 23:47, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Considering that the Chinese monarchy was abolished relatively recently, it's surprising that there never seemed to be any movement to restore it. I suppose the existence of two distinct, antagonistic republican ideologies might have left little room for monarchism, but it's odd that some sort of vague "Imperial sentiment" never played a major role in post-1911 Chinese politics. Did such views perhaps become associated with the Japanese and thus universally fall out of favor? Is there any political organization currently advocating the restoration of the Chinese Empire in some form? Thanks! Bhumiya ( said/ done) 23:56, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
The last monarchy in China had a rather dismal record of submission to foreign powers, so left a very poor opinion of monarchies with the Chinese. StuRat 03:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
See Mandate of heaven -- the Chinese traditionally didn't have a lasting attachment to one dynastic line, the way that Japanese did... AnonMoos 10:10, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
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How much is the Canadian Dollar to Dirham in the United Arab Emirates? Can someone please let me know. Thank-You. Jk31213 00:01, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
where can i look for info on lawyer and how much u make and how many years it takes to become a lawyer
See Legal education. In the U.S. you need an undergraduate degree (B.S., or B.A.) and a good score on the LSAT ( Law School Admission Test. Then you apply to law schools. If your spelling and grammar improve enough, you get admitted to law school and study hard for 3 years, with lots of classes using the Socratic method. You learn about Contracts, torts, civil and criminal and constitutional law, tax law, legal writing, and many other interesting courses. You may take a job with a law firm as an intern after your second year and get paid to do little legal tasks. In your senior year, you do lots of interviews with law firms. If you get a job, and that is difficult because there are more law graduates than there are good jobs, then you go to work in the area which interests you: business law, patent law, tax law, criminal law, bankruptcy, etc. You are expected to work all the time and have very high billable hours, in a several-year effort to become a partner. If you don't make partner, you might be kept as a hired hand "associate" or you might be asked to leave. If you become a partner, then you may get "points" which are a portion of the money made by the associates. You might go into politics or become a judge. A "rainmaker" is someone like a former Senator or Governor, who brings in high paying clients rather than doing lots of work. They make very big bucks. Sometimes lawyers over age 70 are forced to retire and become "of counsel." The pay can be very high - hundreds of thousands of dollars for senior partners in big firms- or comfortable- $50,000 to $100,000, for prosecutors, lawyers in small firms or private practice or associates. Edison 05:19, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Just wondering if someone might please be able to help me decipher a legal abbreviation. I can't seem to find it anywhere. I'm reading ancient English cases, and the judges' titles are not annotated "LJ" "J" or "P" like im used to. I've found Martin, B ; Channel, B and Bramwell, B. I think the "B" stands for Baron - but I was hoping somebody could perhaps clarify this? Maybe this could be added to the common meanings of "B" page. Thanks kindly, Suzanne
Why, dear god, why!? 71.107.40.149 01:32, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Per [1] it arose in the USA in the 19th century, and is regarded as uneducated lower class speech. Few other words have such a sound pattern in their conjugation as "I sneak in," "I snuck in yesterday," "I have snuck in many times." Standard English is "I sneak in," "I sneaked in yesterday," "I have sneaked in many times before." Edison 05:30, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Where are the Shi'a sect, Zaidi, found?
Does anyone ever sing this as a round with 8 parts?-- Filll 05:17, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
aabbccdd aabbccdd aabbccdd aabbccdd aabbccdd aabbccdd aabbccdd aabbccdd
Where in a legal document would a lawyer record the date of an auction? P e rfectStorm (Hello! Hallo! Bonjour! Holla!) 09:21, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Some shoes have a greater propensity towards shinyness than others. What kind of shoe materials produce the maximum shine? Is a shinier shoe something employers look for? -- Username132 ( talk) 13:32, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
In many wars in mankind's history, religion was used or abused to justify its cause. Even though most followers of, say, the Christian religion and Islam emphasize the imperative of peace in their faith, one cannot deny that appealing to the religious feelings of the masses have helped many leaders convince people to go for war. What I mean is that one may doubt that e.g. the organizers of the crusades really believed that freeing Jerusalem is their God's wish but the majority of soldiers participating in the crusades certainly did. Now, Buddhists like to praise the fact that the Buddha's teaching on peace is so clear that it is much harder to manipulate Buddhists's religious feelings into supporting a war, and in fact, it is often claimed, that no major war has ever been justified as being necessary to fulfil commands of the Buddhist faith. Is my inclination to believe this due to the fact that there is truth to it or just due to my European lack of knowledge about Asian history? Simon A. 14:50, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
165.146.65.79 14:51, 18 October 2006 (UTC)charlotte what is some intresting early history of the zulu kingdom
See Shaka#Shaka's social and military revolution -- Jcw69 15:04, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
When I was a child (60yrs ago), my English grandfather (born in 1878) used to sing a little ballad about 3 black crows and a dead horse. It went something like :
There were 3 crows upon a tree, They were as black as crows can be,
( something, something )
Said one crow unto his mate, It's been ( ??? ) since I have ate.
( something, something )
I know a horse that has been slain, He lies there still on yonder plain.
( something, something )
We'll perch ourselves on his jawbone and pick his eyes out one by one.
Can ANYONE identify a tome where a printed version of this song can be found?
There were three ravens, sat on a tree They were as black as they might be The one of them said to his mate "Where shall we our breakfast take?" "Down in yonder green field There lies a knight under his shield. His hounds, they lie at his feet So well they can their master keep. His hawks, they fly so eagerly There's no fowl dare him come nie. Down there comes a fallow doe As great with yound as she might go. She lifts up his bloody head And kissed his wounds that were so red She got him up upon her back And carried him to earthen lake. She buried him before the prime She was dead herself ere even-song time. God send every gentleman Such hawks, such hounds and such a Le-man (transcript ends)
Three black crows sat on a tree Ca beelya geelya gaw ye And they were black as crows could be Ca beelya geelya gaw ye One black crow says unto his mate What shall we do for something to eat? An old red horse in yonder lane Who very lately has been slain We'll pick his eyes out one by one And pick the meat from off his bones
Bogdangiusca who is an admin wrote that Borat was not filmed in Kazhakstan but rather Romania. Just from having seen the previews, I had a strong feeling it was filmed in Romania, especially because he drives a Dacia. Anyway it just looked like Romania. I was wondering where in Romania it was filmed? Bucuresti? Brasov? Somewhere else?
Having spent 2 years in Bistrita and Baicoi, and having been an American actor in a (small, cut) role, I was curious. Do you know where in Romania it was filmed?
Tony
I want data regarding how many people are entrepreneurs and how many are non-entrepreneurs/workers in percentage (or per 1000 people or per 10 people) for a few countries. And I would like to know especially for USA and Brazil. I think many tables might be there deep under Internet but I am not able to find them by googling through yahoo search.
Please throw me a few good links if possible. Incase you would tell me the numbers for a few countries, thats also fine.
Thanks
Hey everybody, my knowledge of the Holocaust is OK, but there are still a few of its concepts that I don't understand, so I thought I thought I'd annoy you with my questions
1) Why didn't the average guy in the street speak out against the Nazi regime, surely the majority of people would have thought that the persecution had to stop and would have spoken out against it?
2) Why was Hitler so prejudiced against anybody who didn't conform to aryan standards? Surely if he wanted to purge the world of all non-aryans he would have ended up in a concentration camp himself?
3) Why did the SS carry out the murders? Why were they also so willing to torture victims? Surely some of the moral fibers would have told them that they shouldn't be doing what they were doing? Because, I mean if enough of them said, excuse my language, "up yours Hitler, we're not killing the Jews" who would have challenged them? Nobody, so I was wondering did they get a kick out of torturing people or something?
4) Lastly, is the question that confuses me the most; Fair enough, the Nazi regime sought to murder people who did not conform to their standards. So, rather than torture prisoners for years, why not just immediately gas them. Did they dehumanize their victims or something so that they would embrace their deaths when they were killed and they would therefore be easier to force into the gas chambers? I apologise that this is such a loaded question. Ahadland 18:00, 18 October 2006 (UTC) 18:00, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
If you study genocide, you will likely come to some disturbing conclusions:
StuRat 19:35, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
it is often said that the weimar republic experienced a golden age, how was this the case?
I'm writing an essay on hazard management strategies. What recent hazard (ie. hurricane katrina? ) would be a good example to argue for or against that 'management should focus on reducing the effects rather than managing the causes'?
Basically most hazards will show that there is little you can do to manage the causes (ie. seeding hurricanes does little) but wondering if there any other examples that illustrate this point or argue against it.
Disasters that can't be completely avoided:
Disasters that can sometimes be completely avoided (although the price may be too high, in many cases):
StuRat 21:23, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
The academic year has started again, so less evilbu on the reference desk, but still some:).
Seriously : I had a question about a certain Jewish ritual. (Questions about Jews in particular seem to be quite popular right now?) I saw it very briefly on television. It involved a group of Jewish (young) men (like between 20 and 30 years old). I wouldn't exactly call it a dance, but it wasn't static either. It's possible one of the men plays a different role, as if he is the central character (maybe this person is celebrated) and the others move around him.
Or maybe this was just a group of Jewish men having fun not doing anything specifically Jewish. But I'd doubt that.
Please don't think I'm trying to take a cheap shot at Jewish ways, it's really not the point of my question, I've just been wondering about this for quite some time.
Thank you very much, Evilbu 23:28, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello all!
According to UC Berkeley's website, they have specific plans for the implementation of Affirmative Action. To my knowledge, AA was banned from use in hiring and admissions in the UC system in the mid-90s, and Prop. 209 baned it statewide in 1996. So my question is: Is UCB using "affirmative action" to mean the active search for/recrutment of minorities, or did they find some loophole in 209, OR has 209 been overturned/altered but affirmative action remains unpopular? I am utterly confused. (This is the link that started the confusion: [3])
Thanks in advance! ~ Russia Moore 23:47, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Considering that the Chinese monarchy was abolished relatively recently, it's surprising that there never seemed to be any movement to restore it. I suppose the existence of two distinct, antagonistic republican ideologies might have left little room for monarchism, but it's odd that some sort of vague "Imperial sentiment" never played a major role in post-1911 Chinese politics. Did such views perhaps become associated with the Japanese and thus universally fall out of favor? Is there any political organization currently advocating the restoration of the Chinese Empire in some form? Thanks! Bhumiya ( said/ done) 23:56, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
The last monarchy in China had a rather dismal record of submission to foreign powers, so left a very poor opinion of monarchies with the Chinese. StuRat 03:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
See Mandate of heaven -- the Chinese traditionally didn't have a lasting attachment to one dynastic line, the way that Japanese did... AnonMoos 10:10, 19 October 2006 (UTC)